I'm undertaking research which involves children and their self-perception with regards to writing poetry/being poets. One aspect being self-efficacy, but I'm struggling wit finding a relible method of measurement. Ant ideas?
There are many different measurement tools for self-efficacy and they are often state specific. I myself designed my own self-efficacy scale for my research into highboard diving as no scale existed.
There are some existing scales for use in writing, but if you need advice on how to adapt them for specific ages or for poetry please don't hesitate to ask i would be happy to help.
here are a few articles containing some examples of self-efficacy measures for writing that i found useful.
Article Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Motivation, and Achievement in Writin...
Article Influence of Self-Efficacy on Elementary Students' Writing
Self - efficacy has a lot of measurements among adults, adolescents and children. All of them based on Bandura's theory and than Schwarzer' tool. Maybe it will be useful:
Self-Efficacy as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review...
An interesting question with many possible answers.
Some work I did for a charity last year (with children) focused on developing a new method to track the 'distance travelled'. The beauty of this approach is that you can identify a certain number of things you'd like to track (whether it's attendance, attainment, progress in a certain area, etc), then decide how often you want to measure it through self-review and quantitative aspects. It can be used for both long term and shorter term measurements, though it would need altering in terms of data collection periods depending on the duration of study.
Let me know if you'd like to talk about this, I've got a few examples I could share with you.